Tape 36 - "Another 'Love' Song (Mixtape)" - How To Make A Mixtape

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How too many? Now, the making of a good
compilation tape is a very subtle art.
Many do's and don'ts. First of all, you're using
someone else's poetry to expresshow you feel.
This is a delicate thing. You got to kick it off with a
killer grab attention, then you got to take it up enough, then

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you got to cool it off a notch. And there are a lot of rules.
It's fucking amateur hour. How to make a mixtape today?
All kinds of difficulties today this.
Is a shit show. This is a shit show.
This ever gets off the ground this episode it's cursed.
Cursed episode. OK so I went snowboarding like
we talked about and I haven't snowboarded in the Midwest and I

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can't tell you how long. Like I have only West Coast
snowboarded like not to sound like a Dick you know, but most
of my snowboarding has been doneout West.
I haven't had to snowboard in the Midwest for a while and I.
Forgot. I forgot what that experience
was like. Yeah, sore.
Very sore. Not very sore, but I got in the

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most laps. Up and down, up and down, up
and. Down well, you're you're, you're
one of the you're, you're a speedy boy when you when you
snowboard, you're a speedy guy. So.
It's just, it's, it was always so choppy in the Midwest.
Like, I felt like it was always hurt because of how choppy it
was, you know? It was choppy.
But that's that's fun. I had a pretty.
It was a good time. I had a great.

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Time. I am kind of envious though.
That sounds sounds fun. Have you spent any time in
Wisconsin? We've we've had the QuikTrip
talk, right? We've talked about QuikTrip and
Episodes pass. Yeah.
And we've talked. About everything I wanted it to
be. It's fun.
It's the only not. I'm not going to say it's the
only reason to go to Wisconsin. There's other things there, but

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it's one of the main reasons to go to Wisconsin.
Is the QuikTrip gas station chain.
Well, we're good speaking. Speaking of sneezes, have you
dodged this illness going around?
I'm not sick at all, but I do know multiple people that are
sick. Have you gotten sick at all?
Knock on wood this winter, you better knock.

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Not that I recall. Not that I recall.
Dude, I know eight to 10 people that are on their deathbed right
now, like the most sick they've ever been.
It's the what is it? It's the COVID flu.
What's that other the norovirus,Norovirus and like something
else. All four things are like are
like having really bad seasons all at once.

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Everybody is sick and I again, knock on wood, I have dodged
this bullet thus far. I'm afraid to even talk about
it. What What did you think of
Clinton's sequencing? I don't know that I spent much
time with it. Let me get, let me get him over
here. Not Clinton, but like, let me
get a let me get a glance at thesequencing.
Oh, he sent me the list. What do you think of it since

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I'm not prepared? I think it's OK, There's nothing
wrong with it. I, I, I really hesitate to do
this because I don't like sidingwith you on things because it's
such a dangerous precedent. Why?
However, I got to, we got to disagree.
Like it's kind of our dynamic. Like we, we can't, we already

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agree probably too much. You know what's so funny?
I was having a, this is really funny.
I was having a conversation withsomebody about the podcast and I
was talking about like, I'm like, we have 75 loyal
followers. Like anybody else that listens
outside of 75 is a fringe listener.
Like and that's a huge, that's abig deal.
And the person that I was talking to is like, you 2 are
nobodies and the fact that you have 75 and I'm like, what the

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fuck, man? Like.
We're not. They're not wrong.
They're not. Wrong but like don't say it out
loud to me but. Isn't that kind?
Of the point in my face. Of podcast until recently.
Wasn't that the point of podcastas they were nobodies talking
about shit and then they got like until recently the
celebrity podcast thing wasn't athing.

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Like think about the most famouspodcast before the last like 3-4
years and they were just like people.
Who? Who started?
Give me an example. Podcasts like Stuff You Should
Know, like those guys were just like, they were writers, but
they weren't like TV personalities or anything.
They were just like journalists who were like we like do.
You have an example. What do you mean I just gave you
one? Like a podcast example,

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goddammit. Like an example of a.
Podcast. Stuff.
You should know. A person that was a nobody that
is now a famous podcaster. Yeah, there's a lot like the
well, I don't want to give our guests away, but, and I don't
know if she's famous, but she's pretty well known in that genre
podcast, What's the big, what's the big one there?
My Favorite Murder. Those two weren't famous for

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anything, were they? Like there was she was a
screenwriter, one of them was a screenwriter.
So maybe like in two circles, I guess.
But OK, I'm a bass player. There you go.
Like, I feel like it's that. I feel like that's that thing.
I don't know why I'm arguing with you because I agree.
We're nobodies. I just feel like that's kind of
the point. But anyway, where where all this
was going was I think summertimeshould have been first, which is

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what you said. It should have been.
It should have been. And I I gotta agree with you.
Yeah, say it again, unfortunately.
Say it a second time. Say it out loud.
You were right, summertime should have been first.
Put echo on your voice when you're saying this as if it's
like from the from the voice above.
He picked the right closer though.
I. Wanna see the closer?

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Yep, Duckworth is a closer. I'm just not I'm not.
I'm not super big on grouping similar songs and mixtapes since
I think some. People are.
So like Madonna and Daft Punk being next to each other, that's
all. But some people like that.
Some people like waves, you know, in their mixtapes.
You know what else could have been the opener?
Fucking toxic. Yeah, toxic could have been.

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That could have been the opener.But well, I mean, you know what?
Last three. Not everybody's.
Maybe the sequence is right. Actually maybe the back half if
you go face to face on he would face to face.
Hot wax. Fantastic voyage to catch a
thief. After the laughter comes tears.
Duck. Oh, you know, what did he do?
The front and back. We didn't ask him.

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We didn't ask him. Let's pretend he did.
And then I like, I like his sideBA lot.
His side. A sequence was a little off.
OK, that's good. So there we go, I told.
Speaking of past guests, I told Ron that I would plug Plug This
happily Plug This, but his movieLeft at Wall is now streaming on
like Apple and anywhere you can rent movies.

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Oh, I can't wait to watch. It so it's available for people
to watch. Do I have to pay for it?
Yes. OK, that's fine.
Does he get the money? I believe he does, yeah.
OK, then I'm going to pay for it.
And Speaking of podcasts, one ofhis Co stars in that movie is
Gareth Reynolds from Dollop, theDollop podcast, which is a

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pretty famous blog. But yeah, Congrats Ron.
Like I know because when we talked to him when we had him
on, he was still screening at places like he was about.
To scream, I remember. That and I think in some places
so it's it's on I don't know if it's out anywhere else, but you
can get it from Apple, it looks like and maybe oh YouTube, you
can rent it through YouTube. So I imagine you can rent it a

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few places. So yeah, you know, Congrats Ron.
And also I hope Ron's OK everything.
He's out in LA and I was talkingto him during the fires and
stuff and you know, he's like, it's obviously he's safe and
stuff, but he was like, yeah, it's pretty fucking scary out
here, so. I had a great friend, a great
friend of a friend, lose their house in the fires and listen to

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this shit. Let me ask you your opinion on
something, OK? Always.
Great friend of a friend. Not my best friend, but my
friend's my best friend's best friend.
OK, so I'm best friend to Jason Lost their house in the fire.
Like nothing. There's nothing left.
OK, lost everything. Luckily enough, they were living

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with their partner at the time. Their partner wasn't affected,
but like all of their most important shit was in the house.
And then like day-to-day the stuff they have what they
needed, they are they're fine. Everything's fine, pets are
fine, everyone's fine. But it's tragic.
It's terrible. They were an adamant cook, chef,
chef, cook, cook, chef. And they had a bunch of LA

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Crusade cookware. And I'm like, how cool.
Like, and they sent me pictures of like they were bummed that
they lost their LA Crusade. Like that.
Like that shit becomes sentimental.
Like if you love to cook and youhave LA Crusade and it gets well
loved over the time and it gets affected.
And so I reached out to LA Crusade and was like, hey,
listen, I sent them photos. I have amazing photos of like

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the before and after because forsome reason they were taking
photos of something they had been cooking.
I could show them to you. I'm not going to show them to.
So there's like a before of the stove, you know?
Well loved LA Crusade. Very well used.
So sad. So sad.
I send these photos to LA Crusade and I'm like, hey,

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listen, I would love to be able to help my friend's friend in
some way, right? I don't have a couple hundred
extra dollars. I don't have lock crusade money.
I don't have lock crusade. I don't have disposable lock
crusade money and I'm like, is there a coupon code like a one
time purchase coupon code that you can help me out with so I
can help this friend of a friend?

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I just want like like what wouldit mean for this person to who
has lost everything to come hometo a box of lock crusade and
said, hey, here's the start of rebuilding something.
Lock Crusade sends this terriblebullshit artificial AI generated
e-mail that's like we care aboutthe people that lost their
belongings and the wildfires. Thanks for reaching out to us.

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That's it. Is that shitty?
Are my expectations too high? It's hard.
It's hard to say like it. Do you think they were getting a
lot of those? That doesn't sound like
something they would get a ton of messages.
There wasn't. I mean, a lot of people lost
their homes, but like, how many people?
Are hitting a block crusade about are.
Hitting a block crusade with photo evidence.

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It feels, it feels shitty to noteven get a personalized
response, even if it's a short being like, hey, I appreciate,
we appreciate where you're coming from.
Tell me no. Even though we appreciate you're
coming from, but unfortunately. Yeah, tell me.
Give me a but. Something so anyway like Crusade
if you want to sponsor. Yeah.
We're available for sponsorship now.
That does seem seem shitty. It's really sad.

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We don't, you know, at this point it's, it's almost old news
now, like, but those people do still need help and there's
plenty of places to donate. And I'm sure if you were the
type of person to have wanted todonate to the LA disaster relief
funds, you probably did it already.
But, but still, you've got some extra money out there.
People I know, like, I mean, I, I follow some people on, you

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know, social media or luckily none of my friends in LA lost
their homes, but I follow some people who did.
And I mean, they're obviously, it's not like their homes just
pop up, you know, they still do.You know that they sell to pay
their fucking mortgages? Did you still have to pay your
mortgage after your fucking house burn stuff?
I guess they never really thought about it.
Isn't that fucking insane? I'm about to say something very

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ignorant to this kind of ignorant as in like uneducated,
but what does that get covered eventually in your like
insurance? Like eventually obviously like
that, that's probably going to take forever for those people to
see any money from their insurance but to.
Make it. Imbursed for their mortgage
payments that they have to make when they didn't have a home.

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Well, it's very sad. Yeah.
Well, luckily this luckily today's mixtape should be very
uplifting and happy, right? Yeah.
I mean, my son are at least mineare great.
We're gonna hopefully take a turn here.
I'm excited for our guests today.
I'm I'm very excited for our guests today.

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I'm very excited for every guest.
Anybody that's willing to give us some of their time.
I'm very excited for every guest.
But this one's gonna be fun, andI love the yin and Yang of our
guests choice. I do too.
I do too. All right, let's get.
Let's get them in here. Let's get the damn guests in

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Great. How to make mix tape Before we
get into Rod's formal introduction of you.

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He dropped this bomb on me in between breaks of you coming on
that he recently used a pen until it was entirely out of
ink. Yeah, I also use my pens until.
They're this is the craziest shit I've ever heard.
It's not you get a good flow, like you get a favorite one.

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It feels right in your hand. And like I take a lot of notes
all the time so they go quicker than you think.
And I like the ink joys. I've never I, I'm sure I have,
but this is rare for me, Me, me.That's why I was telling Don.
I was like, I was so first surprise, I thought the pin was
broke and so I took it apart before I realized, oh, the the
inks just gone. And then I was like, who can I
call right now to tell them this?

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Because this feels like monumentous.
And it ended up being gone. Yeah.
Don's a big pin guy, though. Like, Don's picky.
You're picky about your pins, man.
Like you always have really nicepins.
I got one right here that's. What are you writing with these
days? Meg, what are you writing with
Inkjoys? I like the Inkjoy 6 point O's
and I bought a new pack of them so they're fresh, but this one

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is just the Z grip medium. The Zebras.
They're classic. This is going to be fascinating
podcast content, but I'm rollingwith the uniball signo the micro
two O 7 here. I like the.
I like the fin. Those are kind of Jelly.
Yeah, a little bit Jelly, like not not like a full on gel, but
like a little Jelly and like a micro tip on there.

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Donnie, you strike me as a like a big stick guy.
So right now, the new one that just came in the mail today, old
light pen, bolt action, old light pen.
Yeah, this is a big deal. And Infinity pencil out the
back. Oh man, do you have your name
engraved on that thing? Shit, I can only wish.
Don doesn't mess around with office supplies, Maggie, you can

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tell from about by the like corporate sized printer and
copier behind. Oh yeah, that looks like.
That's a nice one. Is that the one where you like
have to refill the ink with likea gallon jug?
Toner tubes. Toner.
Tubes. There you go toner tubes.
All right, welcome to how to make a mixtape everybody.
This is episode something 36 andwe are I I penciled this person

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in early on because they're because they're a podcaster.
So I was like, they're going to know what to do And because I've
spent a lot of time listening tomusic with this person over the
years. But our guest today is Meg from
the Gruesome podcast. Hi, Meg.
Hi, it's been a while. It has.
It's been a long time. It's been a long time.
You know, when you texted me to ask and you were like, is this
still you? I was like, what could this

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person possibly want it? Wasn't like Oh my gosh so
excited to hear from an old friend.
It was what could this person? I was like, yeah, no, I was
excited. I was like.
Oh, I love that. I was at work.
I was in the middle because in addition to podcasting, I am
also a dental hygienist. So in between my patients, I was
like, huh, I feel like I'm goingto need time to answer this.

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And so I like, stuck it in my pocket.
And then, yeah, I was excited though.
I was just like, oh what the heck.
So your podcast gruesome. Yes, it is well known Meg, you
are a fucking award-winning podcast.
Like it's, it's blowing. It's big.
It's a big it's as much of a surprise to you as that is to
me. We started gruesome, horrific

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true crime in 2020 and we were just drinking White Claws on the
back porch and we were like, we could totally do a podcast.
We could definitely do that. And so we started it and about
it took about a year and a half and it just kind of spiraled
into what it is now, which is a little scary sometimes.

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Like I've had people and my husband says that this does not
happen. It's never happened.
If it happens, he has to give me$500 in front of him.
But like, I've been out in public and people have been
like, hey, are you Meg from Gruesome?
And I'm like. That's happened.
Yeah, yeah, just from my voice it.
Was so cool. It was kind of cool.

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I was like, I probably scared the other person who said it
because I was like, Oh my God, you know, can I hug you?
Because I talk to everyone in public places.
And I was talking to a cashier at Goodwill, and she was like,
hey, your voice sounds familiar.I was like, maybe?
That's the dream. That's very cool.
I mean, I don't actually want people to talk to me in public,

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but I would want that to happen.I would want that.
Fun. It's cool to know that like,
people like it, and it's still weird to me that people want to
hear my thoughts on anything but.
Well, I wanted to ask you. You've probably been asked this
before, I would imagine, but what?
Why true? Like, you're such a positive,
bubbly person. Not that that can't mean you're
into true crime, but it just seems so.

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It's like Meg, really like Meg. Meg Yeah.
So I'll tell you, I was not apart from like I loved Unsolved
Mysteries when I was young, right?
But I did not do a lot of true crime and my best friend did.
So Connie, the my best friend who hosts with me, she was
really into it. But what started our podcast

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really was that I, when I was 10years old, I was kidnapped and
held hostage, and I escaped. And that man was arrested.
And it was a whole thing. And so Connie was like, you
know, we could do true crime because you could tell, you
know, that story if you wanted to.
And I was like, yeah, I'll tell it for sure.

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And then it kind of tied into a story because she grew up nearby
and then there was a cold case from that town and my case and
that cold case kind of tied together.
So we were able to kind of get the ball rolling that way.
Was it the same guy? Do we know?
So he was a suspect, and it's Tricia Wright.

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Oh, my gosh. Writer, writler, Tricia.
That's not going to go well for me.
We've done so many episodes. I'm very sorry, but her name is
Tricia and she disappeared. She disappeared from Marion IN
and the man who kidnapped me wasa suspect in her case.
There's actually a movie on Apple TV called Blackbird that's

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like loosely inspired by that story.
And I don't think I, and I say this in episode 2, I don't think
that the person who kidnapped meis the same person who murdered
her, but he was definitely a suspect.
That's wild and terrifying and Igood reason.
So if people ask where do you think we should start when we
listen to your podcast? I always say just go to one and

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two, just start there and like you'll hopefully you stick
along. Well, I'm happy for your success
and I've when I first, I think it was our friend Erica who told
me about it at first. Erica's the best she.
Pretty early on, yeah. Erica's.
She's a, she's a supporter and Ilove her and I wish I saw her

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and talk to her more. And actually, I went to
Louisville last year and I didn't see her, but I forgot my
purse in a restaurant there. And I like textured out of the
blue. I was like, could you go to this
restaurant and mail me my purse?And she did it.
I know. What a cool thing.
Right there she was. She's the best.
It. Was awesome.
Unsolved mysteries though, whichyou mentioned earlier.

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Your merch. Your unsolved mystery looking
merch is so dope. Mags.
Just a little plug for the gruesome merch.
It is. It is my merch swap.
I'll do it, That's fine. I'll do it anytime.
We'll send somebody to make a mixtape, you send some gruesome
podcast. I can do it.
Do you guys want sweatpants? They're my favorite ones.
Oh my God fuck yeah we want sweatpants of.

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Course we want. Sweatpants.
I'll send you guys sweatpants noproblem.
Hell yeah, we want sweatpants. And then last, my last kind of
official thing here. And then Don, if you've got
anything before we get going on on the mixtape, but your bio on
your on the gruesome website, itmakes me want to ask you who
would win in a Disney Princess fight.

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But I've got to I guess I've gotto give you 2 Disney princesses,
don't I? Yeah, I think that if you can
give me two, I can tell you Who Will Win and why.
Cinderella versus Jasmine. Oh well, OK, so initially it's.
An easy one does. Cinderella not count as a
Princess? I'm not.
I'm not a Disney. Yeah.
She's a Princess. I feel like 1 their animal

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cohorts can't help cause OK, fair.
Cinderella has mice and Jasmine has a tiger and two Jasmine
would win. She's just like, did you see her
fight? Totally.
Yeah. Did you see her fight?
What's his name? Jafar at the end of that like
she's a lot scrappier. Cinderella's going to be like,
please no, I don't want. Yeah, she did.

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My my only thing was Cinderella,was she?
She grew up with that horrible stepmama step sister and I.
Feel like she's got something suppressed.
Yes, I feel like people who grewup in that situation, they've
got something in them where they're like, you don't, you
don't, you know, don't bet against them when the chips are
down. Whenever when I talk about
people getting in fights, I'm always like the people who win
fights are the people who aren'tafraid to die.
They're like, one of us is leaving this fight alive and

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it's going to be me. And I feel like Cinderella does
maybe have that in there. But I.
I don't know you're going Jasmine, I'm.
Going. Jasmine that's.
Kind of what I think she's scrappy.
That's fair. Do you agree with that, Don?
You're you're. Yeah.
That one for sure, if I'm going to take, I got two things, I've
got two things #1 is that I think that was an easy one.
That was a lob ball rod. If I were just.

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To Bruin 1st 2 the pop in my head.
If we're going to say Jasmine and Moana, now we've got a fight
like now we've got. And honestly?
For sure. I Moana's stronger, she's got
muscle. She's been out there on the
ocean. Disagree.
Cranking. I'm cranking out that canoe
water. Training, water training, that
stuff's no. Joke water training.

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She's ripped. Yeah, she's got water training,
OK. On as buff as hell.
And then the second thing, Megs,is that when I found out we were
going to have you on, I was like, oh, you know, I haven't
spent. I'm not a huge true crime guy,
right? Like that's OK.
I'm not no, totally. And so I'm like, oh, I want to
get, I want to spend some time listening to the pod and I live
in a condo building, facilities manager of the condo building,

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which means that I am responsible for snow removal.
So I spent like 3 hours clearingthe driveway listening to
Jeffrey Dahmer's stories and I regretted.
It. I regretted it for sure.
Like that was so much. It's Oh my God like.
It's a lot. My husband said he listened to
that episode on his way to work because he he owns a bar in

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Muncie. So we live kind of farther away.
So he drives to work. And he was like, I listened to
Jeffrey Dahmer to and from work.And I got to tell you, I was
getting anxiety on my way home. It was it was breaking me down.
It is it's it's in the title on and honestly.
It's a horrific true crime, not hiding I.

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I get it, I get it. I, I know it's in the title.
I, I, you know I should have. Never.
He doesn't listen. Not only that, but like Jeffrey
Dahmer, like I should have known.
Yeah, you went right from the like.
Yeah, yeah. Shit, it was a good one to start
with though. Really just I hope you learned a
lot about. I learned a ton and like again,

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like I've got friends that are big true crime buffs and so I'm
like, did you know this shit? They're like, yeah.
And they're like, yeah. Yeah, I did know that.
And I was like, this is the worst shit I've ever heard.
Yeah. So it was, it was fantastic.
It was a great list. I don't blame you for not
listening either, because I the reason that so many of our like

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the way Connie and I run it is Itell her a case she's never
heard and she tells me a case I ever I've never heard, and I've
never heard pretty much all of them.
So I'm always like, what? What?
Yeah, that's probably good for the dynamic, though.
You know, you're always like, what the Hell's going on?
Yeah. All right, it was great.
Let's kick this bitch off. Are we going to you want to do
this? Let me let me go through the

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guidelines. I've been dwindling my speech
down to get it shorter and shorter and shorter so it
doesn't get under Don's skin. I.
Don't. I don't even know if we told you
this, but after the after the recording, your final job is to
put the songs in the right order, the right orders,
whatever order you want. And you don't do it on air like
you'll send it to us after because we'll post the final.

(26:14):
Mix. I was like.
So you got time. I wish I would have had that.
Yeah. But some of these rules kind of
are more about the sequence thatyou put the order that you put
them in. So just.
Keep them in mind. OK, I'm listening.
So #1 you got to have a killer opening track, no pun intended,
with the true crime thing there.Cheesy dad jokes.
Sorry, sorry killer. Opening track.

(26:37):
That's what's written here to grab the listeners attention.
Each song should flow smoothly into the next.
The mixtape should have a good balance of different genres,
tempos and moods. Is to tell a story or convey a
specific emotion and we'll get into the theme of this one in
here in a second. Can't be too obvious but can't
be too obscure either. You can't double up on songs by
the same artist and you got to close with a banger.
Basically, Meg, you want to tellthe audience what the theme is

(27:00):
for today's mixtape? The theme is love songs, songs
that have the word love in the title, right?
Yes, I love that that's the theme that you picked.
Do you know how many songs have love in the?
Title Million songs. All of them.

(27:21):
It's all the songs. It's all.
Music and like they vary. It's like, are they in love
songs or are they out of love songs or they break up?
Are they? Oh man, it was a good one.
I was excited. That's why I think it's good.
It's like because this is February, right, And so this is
a little after Valentine's Day, but we were like, let's do
something kind of Valentine's Day.
And when you pick this one, I'm like, that's perfect because
it's it fits enough, but it's toyour point, it love Kabil.

(27:44):
I mean some of these songs. Some of the best songs are
writing about falling out of love.
Yep. All right.
And then do you want to go first, second or third in the
rotation, Meg, there's. Strategy behind this Meg.
I'm going to go first. Smart move.
Good call, good call. And you got to open with a
banger. Was that what you said?

(28:04):
Yeah, the mix tape needs to but.I'm trusting that you will.
I am going to go somebody to love Queen.
Find anybody. Find me somebody alone.

(28:27):
I need someone to lie. It's a great one of my honorable
mentions. It's.
A banger. What is it about this song?
I love Queen in general, so theywere kind of like, I went
through all my favorite bands inmy head and I was like, all
right, which ones will I pick from them?
Like there's another band that I'll talk about in a little bit

(28:48):
that I had to really narrow it down to pick just one song with
love in the title. But it's also just like, like
Freddie Mercury gets so big withit and it's theatrical and it's
fun. It's like, it's such a good
like, like rock, like rock and like power song.
I love it. I would argue probably one of
the more recognizable classic rock intros.

(29:12):
Like that intro? Like that, that acapella intro.
Yeah, you could put that on it the second you hear that first
note. You know, oh man.
Everybody's ready to sing along with the whole song.

(29:33):
That could be most Queen songs that are popular though, that's
all. I love Queen too.
I love all pretty much all queenbut this is peak Queen era.
Like Night at the Opera is peak.That's when they were leaning
the most into the theatrical operatic, like compositions in

(29:53):
their music. And even this song, which is
fairly straightforward. You think in your mind and then
you go back and listen to you, you're like, no, there's like
movements in this song. There's like, yeah, they they
were. They were really, they really
hit their kind of peak in this record, I think.
Yeah, absolutely. I agree.
Yeah, that was that was my, if I, if I was opening a playlist,

(30:14):
that's the one I would, that's the one I would put up in there.
That's a good way to start. Even without knowing mine and
Roderick's contributions, do youthink this might still be a
mixtape opener or is it too early to tell?
If I so I actually made an AppleMusic playlist of all of these
songs and it is not my opener onmy playlist, but it's like

(30:37):
towards the middle, like ramp itback up.
OK, OK all. Right, OK, I'm dying to see.
Where she's she's at least thinking strategy.
Yeah, absolutely. Some of our guests, they just
throw, they just throw the songsout there, you know?
No, no, no. The playlist making is a very
serious, it's a very serious sport in my house.
It is. I'm I'm glad to hear you say
that. I think we picked the right
guest. Yeah, I agree.

(30:59):
Don, your pick. It's me.
Yeah, it's you. You're out.
I'm going to throw this bitch out quick and it's as on the
nose as it can be. And the song is love by music.
Soulchild love. Through all the ups and downs,
the joy that hurts love. For better or worse, I.

(31:27):
Still will choose you first. It is one of the best R&B songs
that you will ever hear and music.
Soulchild is such a good singer it's awful.
One of his early albums. I can't remember what the damn

(31:48):
name of the album was. But I don't know this song.
When did it come out? Tell me about it.
Music Soulchild is an R&B singerfrom probably early 9, late 90s,
early 2000s. The album is And I Just want to
Sing is the name of the album. And he is kind of, he is we

(32:09):
talked about on the last episodewe recorded.
He's your musician's favorite musician.
He's your R&B singer's favorite R&B singer and music Soul child.
Just he has a massive range and he's like a couple of my
favorites. Like Love is one of my favorite
songs that he sings and then 143is another one.
Just Friends is another one. It's just perfect.

(32:31):
Like in the groove, R&B music. If you get a chant, like when
You Get a chance, like again, another huge builder.
I'm adding it to my library right now so I can listen to.
It I'm so damn good and he singsthe shit out of this song.
And Rod, I think you're listening to it right now.
Is that what's happening? Because he's on the song.

(32:51):
The drums. You're in the chest, man.
Yeah, those drums come in. I don't who produced this
because those those drums don't sound like any other I was
expecting when I was like waiting for the music to come in
and like this is going to sound like really.
Slow in acapella. Yeah, I was waiting for it to
sound like a genuine song because that's where it felt
like it was building up, too. And then the drums came in and
it was just like, oh, what is this?

(33:12):
This came out in 2000, by the way.
Yeah. That's what I was just looking
at. I didn't think about the fact
that I could play in my headphones while we're talking
and you guys won't know. OK, hold on.
Hold on. You're giving away our secrets,
Meg. No, I'm just.
Yeah, it's true. I think people, I think people
know that at this point. You gotta cue me in free because
if I don't, I didn't think aboutthe fact I wouldn't know a song.
And also I don't remember names of songs or artists very well

(33:36):
sometimes. So like, I might know it and be
like, Oh yeah, I didn't know. Same, although I don't know this
one. I'm with you, Meg.
I'm not I'm I was familiar of music Soulchild.
This album cover looks really familiar but I think I might be
thinking of a mash up of other album covers in my like it's got
like a mix of that. Every I.
Was gonna say every 2000s Yeah, yeah, yeah.

(33:59):
Yes, but he went on to have likea very big, I mean he's got a
huge career over almost 2 million monthly listeners.
This song itself has got 653,000,000 streams.
Like it's a big deal but God canthis dude sing?
His voice is fantastic. I mean, he's he's been nominated
for a bunch of Grammys. Looks like he was on a Def Jam.
Obviously he's big. I just, it must not have been on

(34:20):
my radar. Like, I listened to some R&B,
but it was mostly like the like,you know, Usher voice like.
Yeah, I'm kind of with you. I like R and BI was late.
I was late to the park. Like I, that was early for me.
It was R&B and then and then I kind of got out of it with the
exception of like whatever my high school girlfriends were
listening to, which is pretty much all ushered.
Whatever was playing at your school dance.

(34:42):
In Matchbox 20, yeah. Except for her.
Yeah. All right.
I feel like she would love music.
Soulchild. Probably not.
And a great spelling of music. Soulchild.
You spell music with AQ, that's fucking.
Cool, you you. Have to be.
Cool if you do that. You do go ahead and spell the

(35:03):
album name, tell us what the album's called again, and then
spell the album. 'S called all I want to do.
All I want to do is sing or whatis it?
It's I, I I just want to sing. I just want to sing but it's
spelled. All one word.
AIJUSWANASEING one word. I just want to sing.

(35:24):
I'm so glad that you said it because I looked at it and said
Nope, I don't know what that is.Nope.
I. Don't.
Nope, Nope, Nope. No, I'm not going to try that
for me. This is a great album.
Listen to just Friends. Listen to 143.
Listen to Love. Those are like the best tracks
off this album. It's the whole album's good.
But yeah, musical soul child. There you go.

(35:45):
Right, all right. I'm I can't.
Wait to see how eclectic this. It's going to be, it's going to
be eclectic. Yeah, it's going.
To be. Awesome, because I'm taking us
back to 1965 Motown. So I'm going with a four top
song Baby I Need Your loving. Oh, great songs.

(36:24):
On my list for sure. I just I had AI had quite a few
like Motown, early soul or even like Doo wop songs on my initial
how. Can you not?
Is it loving and the title? It's loving, it's it's formal,
it's loving. And I, I didn't want to, I, you
know, I just wanted to go with one for the mixtape.
And this one, I, I kind of listened to him on loop for a

(36:45):
bit and this one just kept, thiswas the one that kept getting
stuck in my head. I was like, this is the one.
I love this song. And The Four Tops are great.
I think this is like early 4 tops too, like matching suit.
I feel like when I think of lovesongs, that era of music like
Motown and like Doo wop groups like that was what they did best

(37:08):
was love songs. Oh, absolutely.
Well, every song was a lot like it was pretty much the only
thing. You know, songs about that
Exactly. Yeah, that's all there was, was
breaking up with someone, getting together with someone,
wanting to get together with someone or being with someone.
Those are. Like, what else are you supposed
to write music about? I'm sorry I.
Mean so just this album just so you guys are aware just on this

(37:30):
album which was their self-titled there's baby I need
your loving, which is what I'm going with, but there's also
your love is amazing and love has gone so there's three songs
on this album with love in the title just on this record I.
Mean it's perfect, just just those it's.
Just one of those classic, classic ones, though, you know?

(37:51):
Like everybody knows the song, even if they don't.
Like you can sing the chorus to this.
You're probably singing it in your head right now, you know,
listener. I like, I like their song Ain't
No Woman. That's a good one for me.
We don't want. To get that one.
Did 4. Did Nashville and country model
themselves off of Motown? Where like, was this like

(38:13):
writers, producers did everything and then they just
brought in talent to sing the same way that that kind of
Nashville approaches country right now where it's like we
write the songs, we produce the songs.
We hired the like, hired guns. And then there's one face.
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not sure where that started
because like Stax Records did that too.

(38:34):
They're like the first like Big Soul label that launched like
Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding andstuff.
They did that. Wasn't it like OG country
though? Like kind of independent on
itself where they were like theywere like doing their own thing
and then everyone just kind of caught on?
I don't know. I'm not.
I can't remember. I think, well, I, I think so

(38:56):
like, I think the first big country stars were literally
like hillbillies playing the famous and stuff.
And I think, but I think a lot of that stuff, it was like, I
don't know what you'd call it, but like public domain style
stuff, like not even stuff they wrote, just like stuff that
everybody knew, like songs that everybody played.
I don't know. It's, it's, it's, it's hard to
know. I, I, I think that early

(39:18):
rock'n'roll stuff, I think a lotof that stuff took its cues from
like the movie industry actually.
I think they had people writing songs for artists to sing.
But it was because people, they were doing that because of
musicals and stuff. Like a lot of Elvis's songs came
from like people who are writingmusicals and things and black
artists that recorded at first. But I'd like, I mean, it's not.

(39:40):
He wrote some stuff for sure, but like, I don't know some of
his stuff. Most of his.
Stuff, yeah. I don't know, 'cause like you
see, you see these. Standards.
That's the word I was looking for, sorry.
You see these bands, right? You see The Four Tops, you see
the temptations, you see like this genre.
And I'm wondering how much of this 'cause I think that it
happened with. Female Doo wop at the time, like

(40:04):
The Supremes and stuff like thatwhere it was like they were just
brought in, but I don't rememberif it happened to Motown as
much. I don't know, It's interesting.
Yeah, I think it's complicated though, because I I think they
they more created like these creative communities where they
wrote for each other. Because I think some of the
temptation stuff were written bythem and I think they wrote for
other people. But then they would take songs

(40:24):
from other people or somebody would write a song and the label
would be like, that would actually sound better if these
other guys sang, so you're goingto give your song to them.
Yeah. So I think it was more like a
big collective of people like. I, I, I just read that there was
a point when Motown tried to break into the country music
market and they had a, they had a country imprint called Melody

(40:44):
Land and they used in house songwriters to create music for
that label. But it didn't go well because
they do what they do best, you know they do so.
If it's not broke, don't fix it.Right?
Like that's the adage. All right, Meg, it's back to
you. Pick #2.
All right, so we have had some rock'n'roll, some R&B and.

(41:09):
Some. Motown.
Oh man, so I am going to go Friday.
I've been loved by the Cure. I don't.
Care if Monday's blue, Tuesday'sgreat and Wednesday to the.
I. Don't care about you this.

(41:33):
Friday I'm in love the most. Most picked artist.
I thought The Cure would be on here, but I thought it would be
love song and it's so not It's Friday.
Night, this is the this is the one I said where there were so
many Cure songs that I was like I could have done love cats.
I could have done love song. I could have done Friday.
I'm in love. There's like a billions.
I kind of wish you didn't love cats.

(41:55):
I want to do that's such a funny.
What a great fucking bass line. It's fantastic.
It's a it's a that's a very fun song.
But Friday I'm in Love is my personal favorite over love
song. It's just more fun, yeah.
That's the right call. One thing we've learned doing

(42:16):
this podcast is that the cure, Ialways knew they were huge.
I think everybody knows they're huge, but I didn't realize how
close they are to just everybodybecause this is the most picked
artist on the podcast. And yeah, and people you don't
expect, like, people just drop it and you're like, whoa,
really? Not that I didn't expect it from
you necessarily. That's not what I'm saying.
It's just like, they're incredible.

(42:37):
And I think they span so many different.
Everyone's got a Cure song they like I.
Think they span a lot of different tastes.
I think people who are centered in different kinds of music all
kind of it's like the Venn diagram of genres, the cures
right in the middle. The cure will find their way
into one of them. Yeah, so I mean, it's a
fantastic pick. Like I think we've, I don't know
if this song has been on anothermixtape or not, but like Robert

(42:59):
Smith's writing, we always talk about every time they get picked
for a mixtape because he's just such an incredible songwriter,
an incredible human being. So I'm happy to keep talking
about him like. Like would you like me to keep
go on about Robert Smith? I mean even and like they just
released an album this within the last year too, and it's
still good. It is.
It's good. I know I listen to it and I was

(43:20):
just like this just sounds like the cure.
It's, it's a they can't. Even if they try something new,
they still find a way to be themselves.
That's what I like about here. It's still they're.
Still putting out good music, which is kind of mind blowing.
Like at some point you should probably get worse, you know,
songs of a lost world. That's what it's, that's what's
called. It's better than it's.

(43:42):
It's better than some other Curealbums in my opinion.
So it's like putting out, it's better than other stuff they've
put out, which is mind blowing. Highly highly recommend to
listen to that one. There is I and yeah, there's so
many good Cure songs. I get why they're while they're
your most picked artists, because they are they span I.
Don't know if that's who I ever would have suspected would have
been our most picked artist. I guess I should, I don't.
I don't think I would have either.

(44:03):
That's the. Thing who would you guys have
thought it was? Who would you have like been
like, oh, everyone's going to pick this?
There's only been 3 Beck songs. I thought, I think it was just
going to be rod picking back foreverything.
But. Just Rod singing Odelay to you
over and over. Here's the thing.
I do love well, so no, that actually that brings up.
So to answer your question, to make, I thought some of our

(44:24):
favorite arts would cut up a lot.
Like I listen to more Smashing Pumpkins than anything else on
my, according to my Spotify rapsthing.
And I've yet to pick a pumpkin song 'cause they just haven't
fit one of the mixtapes for me. I think they've been on one
episode maybe and I didn't pick it, you know, and like stuff
like that. So I don't know, I kind of
thought, you know, I don't know,TomTom Petty and the
Heartbreakers or The Rolling Stones or like these, you know,

(44:48):
Queen, for example. Queens got the biggest tax of
all time. Exactly.
And it really hasn't been. It's been all over the place.
It's been the cure like I think the next closest is I don't even
know. But I I do want.
The concept of this podcast because it really it you can
really see how widely people's music tastes vary.
And it's, it's awesome to be surprised by people, you know

(45:10):
which because, and you shouldn't, you can't judge books
by covers by any means. But like, sometimes people come
on here and drop the wildest stuff.
And I'm just like. Here I thought I.
Knew you, and I'm kind of glad that I don't know you as well as
I thought. This is exciting.
You know, like before doing thispodcast, I didn't know that Don
how much Don loved Buckethead. Love Buckethead.

(45:30):
You have Buckethead he. Seems.
Do you know Buckethead? I do know Buckethead, he seems
to be like, he would be very cool.
Like he seems like a cool dude. He does seem like a cool dude.
Thanks Meg. Thanks for affirming what I
agree with. Oh God, I will also say because
it's a love quote UN quote, you know in quotes love song episode

(45:52):
Robert Smith's been married for 37 years to she uses to his
wife. So obviously the best to write.
Do you know though that he said he would not wear makeup
anywhere but anymore? But his wife likes it when he
wears the makeup and that's why he does it.
I mean, what a guy he he loves his wife, he just wants to make
her he's. Like I just want to make her

(46:13):
happy. I mean, they're a great couple.
Mary Poole, Robert Smith. Power couple right there.
Power power couple. Icons did.
You say 37. 37 years. Yeah, they got married in 1988.
Congrats. The only Smashing Pumpkin song
that has been chosen up to this point is Rocket.

(46:35):
You chose it or. I chose it for sophomore for
best songs off of artist second albums, yeah.
Now I'm curious who the second most is, but we're not going to
do that in the real time. We'll go in real time.
All right, we'll come back to this next episode.
I am going, we've talked about it.
I have a deep rooted love for reggae and it's going to be Bob

(46:58):
Marley and The Wailers and the song is going to be is This
Love? Yeah, yes, that should

(47:22):
absolutely be on here. That's a great choice.
That song is the first track on Legend.
Their like greatest hits and forsome reason for I would say
three years, like I fell asleep to this album.
I could see that. Like I put this on to fall
asleep too. Bob Marley just soothed you to

(47:42):
sleep. The first track is, Is it Love?
The second track is No Woman No Cry Live and if I made it to No
Woman No Cry Live, If I made it to Could You Be Loved, which is
the third song, another song with the word love, then I knew
that I was up too late. But if I made it past those
first two trying to fall asleep.You're like, I got to make it

(48:02):
through at least this 10 minutes.
Yeah, exactly. So that album Legend was in when
I was like 18, my car broke downand I drove my stepdad's truck
for a while and he just had it in the side and I it was like
the only CD in the truck and I listened to it on loop for like
many months. And so I agree with you that
whole the whole thing, it's it'sgood.

(48:23):
It's. Your fucking stepdad is awesome.
He's great, He's a good, he's a good man, but luckily I never
the. Only CD he had in the truck is.
It would probably be that. And he's also a big fan of like
the Goo Goo Dolls. So it's very you're like, what
are you? But I did not fall asleep while

(48:44):
driving. So that's good call good.
Call. That's the right move.
Can we talk about that phenomenon for a second though?
Like have you ever had ACD stuckor a tape stuck and that's all?
You can do and you're like this is this is just part of the car
now. Yep, this is just the soundtrack
to everywhere I go. Now I'm trying to remember.
It happened to me, I had ACD stuck in a truck I used to have

(49:06):
but I I should. I think I've blocked that whole
time period out of my memory. I think I was traumatized by
having to listen to the same thing.
Because of the CD you're like, Ican never think of this again.
Well, you think about that, Roderick.
I'll tell you that three of the five most listened to Bob Marley
tracks on Spotify have the word love in the title.
I mean, what are they? Lay them out.
Yeah. Could you be loved is number 11

(49:28):
billion listens. Is this love, which is the track
that I picked that's number three 879 million listens and
one Love people get ready is number five, 575,000,000
listens. You know it's different on Apple
music #3 is 3 little birds. 3 Little Birds is number 2 on
Spotify. OK, Over a billion listens on
three Little Birds. Billion is a number I can't

(49:49):
fathom. Yeah, we've talked about it.
Just too many, too many. 23 million talking about it's too
many. Yeah, we've talked about on
podcast past, but I'm going to share this with you because it
makes my stomach feel queasy every time.
Do you know how long a million seconds is?
Oh my gosh, yes, 1,000,000 seconds is like like a couple of
hours. Yeah, 12 days and then the other

(50:10):
one's like 32. Years or something.
A billion seconds is 32 years. Yeah, that's too big.
It's. Too much, it's too many.
Too much math. That means somebody has listened
to Could You Be Loved for 32 years?
A 32 years worth of Could you beloved?
Could you be loved? Which is kind of cool.
I. Just checked in real time and

(50:33):
the number behind the Cure, which has now been picked 5 five
times. There is a bunch of two time
artists in here. So there's like probably 7
artists that have been on two mixtapes.
No. Oh, I'm sorry, somebody spelled
something wrong. Death Cab for Cutie's been
picked three times. Oh.
Death Cab coming in hot. Yeah, so there it is.
Death cab following the cure. OK, is it might hurt my?

(50:55):
T Roderick, what do you got? What's your second?
Where am I going? Where am I going?
Where am I going? I'm actually going to stay in
the 60s, but different genre andI'm going to go a little on the
like. Can you be on the nose?
Because they all have love in the title, but.
Yeah, they all have love. Well I mean the music Soulchild
song is called Love so I don't know it could be.
More than the most on the nose. Yeah, I'm going All You Need is

(51:16):
Love by The Beatles. Oh yeah, I kind of expected that

(51:42):
one to be on here. I I don't care how like hippie
of a sentiment that is. I think it's a fantastic song
and I it's my favorite era of The Beatles.
Magical Mystery Tour era is my fig.
That's when they got weird. And so even they're like poppy
songs like this is known as likea like everybody knows all you
need is love. But go listen to it.
It's got so much weird horn stuff in it and weird background

(52:04):
shouting and stuff. And I love that era of The
Beatles when they were just tripping and being weird, but
still couldn't help but make these massive pop hits because
that's just who they are. They just are great pop
songwriters. I was.
I was. Going to verify because that was
on Yellow Submarine right? It was Magical Mystery Tour
which. Is Magical Mystery Tour.
Which is what, yeah, I think it kind of bleeds in because Yellow

(52:27):
Submarine was technically a soundtrack to the cartoon movie
that they did. Oh, OK.
And all these songs are written at the same time.
Yellow Submarine from my library.
So that is why I thought, oh. No.
I was. I know I was.
I spent a lot. I know it's not good.

(52:47):
I spent a lot of time in the library and I remember I checked
that one out and then I just, I liked it.
And so I never took it back. I was like this is mine now.
Oh, Meg. That's great Arrow they.
Still let me check other stuff out.
Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine and Sergeant Peppers.
Like that. I mean, I, I'm a Beatles fan,
but like that era of Beatles, just incredible.
I mean, Magical Mystery Tour, people don't talk about this

(53:09):
record much, but it's got All You Need Is Love.
It's got Penny Lane, it's got Strawberry Fields, it's got
Hello Goodbye. All the hits.
Scott bangers on it. Fool on the Hill.
This was another. Situation.
I'm the Walrus. Like what the what the fuck is
record's incredible? I love that the Love episode is
the one where we've decided to see how many times artists have

(53:29):
been on mixtapes, and I thought The Beatles have been on more
than once. They've only been on this one
other mixture. It's only the second time, Yeah,
you've seen this guy with diamonds.
We've seen this guy with diamonds first songs with a
girl's name. Which was second episode. 2nd
episode. Sounds to the girl's name.
That's cute. Yeah.
I that's a good choice. It should be on there.

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You're right. Good job, Roderick.
Hey Plex, Gold Star for Rod for The Beatles.
Great job. It's always good when I get a
good job from Don Meg. It makes my day.
And that sounds sarcastic. It's not.
I 100% mean it. Makes me understand.
You see the big smile on my face.
It's like your dad telling you. It's like your dad sincerely
telling you. Good job at something.
Hi, Roderick. That's how I.

(54:11):
Feel. I feel a Dante.
Had a boy, Roderick. Now you're sounding patronizing.
You're such a big. Boy.
It's not true. It's not I, I mean it with my
whole heart. Yeah.
Well, thank you very much. Meg, I believe we're over to
you. Yeah, Meg.
Back, back at it again. You're right, it does shift

(54:32):
because I like had my top that Iwas picking and then I'm like,
Oh, no, I'm listening to these and now I got to get something
else that fades in here. I'm going to go oh, oh, I love
her so by the Ramones. Oh, yeah, oh, oh, I love so oh,

(54:52):
oh, I love so oh, oh, I love. So oh oh.
I love so. Oh, oh, I love.
So yeah, a little Ramones on. Here I feel like there was
there's a lack of lack of Ramones.

(55:17):
Lack of Ramones. Nobody needs that.
There is a lack of Ramones on past mixtapes though, so we just
you. You brought the most the most
played artists on past mixtapes and you brought maybe the most
underplayed. Because I actually think this
might be the only second Ramon song and the first one was on a
Christmas one episode. Nope.

(55:38):
What? That was an honorable mention.
This is the first time the Ramones have been on the
podcast. Hey, do you know what?
They deserve it. They deserve it.
They are. They people think that they're
just blitzkrieg bop and I want to be sedated.
And they have so many, so many good, so many bangers.
Who are those people? Bring those people right here.
Bring those people right here. Let's see them look honestly, I

(56:01):
have the three of us. Donnie looks like the only one
that can fight and I don't think.
Ouch. I mean, you're not wrong, but
still not wrong. Ouch.
I don't think you would have to.I think you just look like you
could, and so people wouldn't want to.
Yeah, you should lean into. It I'm not, I'm not going to.
But I was not a fighter. Yeah.

(56:23):
You know, that's why he's so good at this.
This this episode, He's that's. True.
Because he's 11. Call him big love.
When you spend some time with that music Soulchild song,
you'll get it. You'll.
Get it? You'll get that music.
Soulchild song. I'm like, you know, he's just a
he's just a nice boy that listens to reggae and R&B.

(56:43):
Yeah, I was wrong about him. That's all you need.
That's absolutely right. Do we Meg?
Did we mention I crochet? Do.
You do. We want to throw that out there
as well. I love that you crochet, but now
you're bringing it up every episode.
I know you're. Right.
But I mean, she did just call mea fighter a minute ago.
So I just want to throw it out there just.
That's fair. OK.
So you can make it men to two people with.
Do. You do you have a close thing

(57:06):
you can show me? Is it like nearby?
Show me like a little granny square where you got?
There's a beanie man. Cool, that's awesome.
I can't crochet. I've tried a couple of times but
I'm just not good at it. That's awesome.
I'm proud of you. Thank you.
It is Meg. Feel like I feel like we just
blew past the Ramones way too fast.
Sorry I. We can go back I.

(57:28):
Mean I don't know if anybody else has anything to say about
them. I just like we they haven't been
on an episode yet and they they're like they're the punk
rock Beatles. So in addition to talk about.
I love, I love calling them the punk rock Beatles.
That's hilarious to me. Were they?
I just saw an interview. Are you guys watching all the
SNL 50 stuff at all or is that am I just a?

(57:50):
Little bit. I've been watching the music
stuff more than the actual episodes, but I have not have a
little bit. He was on one of them, Dee Dee,
or it might have been Tommy, oneof them was on doing an
interview. So it was either the special or
it was the retrospective music thing that they did.
It was on one of those, but I think the Ramones only performed

(58:12):
once on SNL. But I think.
I think the interview is becausesomebody did a Ramon song,
somebody else did a Ramon song on an episode of SNL once and
they like interviewed him about what he thought about it and he
was obviously cool about. He was like, yeah.
What I know about their Ramones is that Phil Spector was just
obsessed with Joey and in studiothey would record and record and

(58:34):
then they would leave. He would, like, kick him out for
the night and they bring in studio musicians to record their
albums. And then he would just, like,
tinker with Joey's vocals. And my dad actually saw the
Ramones play and he said they got booed off stage.
And is apparently it's because they played all of their albums,
like, way too fast. Like they never sounded right
because they were like, well, they're punk rock, so they
should, but. They're also like, they were

(58:56):
built to be like a CBGB's band, like a small club band.
I feel like they'd be probably awesome in the tiny club, but
then they got too big to play clubs like that.
And I don't know if seeing the Ramones at like a big arena or
not. You know, they weren't stadium
sized, but they were probably playing like Amphitheatre size
places and like, yeah, that would be kind of weird to see
the Ramones in a spot like that too, so.
Yeah, it's like I have AI have aseparate story about a Ramon

(59:20):
song if you want to hear it. Bring it out.
I was at a Warp tour and I was watching, I think it was Less
Than Jake. And there was a kid there
anyhow, and there's a kid there and he had his head shaved into
a scullet and he had a Ramon shirt on and they covered
Blitzkrieg Bop. And they were like, get up here,

(59:40):
get this kid up here. And they pulled him on stage and
he didn't know the words to Blitzkrieg.
Oh. Called out.
That's fucking. It was hilarious.
I was just like I was with my brother and I looked at him.
I was like not knowing the wordswhile you're wearing the shirt
at like a Warped Tours. Embarrassing.
Probably thought it was a safe place to do it because nobody,

(01:00:02):
nobody's going to call you out. They're just going to assume.
Instead, a band will pull you onstage and be like, sing the song
for us I'll. Fucking embarrass.
Meg, if you had said, if you hadsaid I'm about to tell a Warps
tour story, what band do you think I was watching before I
tell the story? Don and I both would have said
Less Than Jake. Less Than Jake.
Bullshit, you both would have said Paramore.
No, we did a warp tour episode and and we're like, we talked a

(01:00:23):
lot about how the Less Than Jakeis the quintessential Warp tour
band. Like they played more Warp.
Tours, they're always there, yeah.
They're there. They never left.
And it wasn't, I wasn't like I wasn't even seeking out Less
Than Jake. They were just like on the one
of the big stages. And I was just like in the back,
just kind of hanging out and they.
Listen, you don't have to excuseyourself.

(01:00:43):
We we stand Scott, we stand Scott Punk on this show like
we're we're all for it. So.
You know, I I this might be controversial saying this, but
No Doubt is like my second favorite band of all time and I
know they don't qualify as Scottanymore, but at one time.
I disagree. That's how I got into them.
We're big fans of all that stuff, so yeah.
And they, I mean, let them do their thing.

(01:01:05):
I'm not going to rain on anybody's parade.
They're still valid. They're.
Still valid? Let them, let them have it,
yeah. All right, Don all.
Right now my turn. Fuck I don't know.
OK so this I have chosen this band before and I've wanted to
save this one for I've wanted todo soundtracks so fucking bad

(01:01:26):
and I'm still waiting for when we do soundtracks.
But. You gave your love to me softly
by Weezer. It's such a perfect Weezer song

(01:01:57):
and it's off the Angus soundtrack.
It's not on a Weezer album and that's probably one of the
greatest soundtracks of all time.
It's such a it's like the perfect song for the perfect
movie at the perfect moment. Everything about like it plays
at the right time in the movie. It's like perfect mid 90s Weezer
like before everything got too big.

(01:02:19):
When did it? When did it get too big?
What album? It started to go downhill, kind
of, with the green album. Island in the Sun was the
beginning of the end of the Weezer.
I I like the Green album. I like the Blue album.
I listen to a lot of Weezer. I don't know, I've heard that
song, but I don't think I've ever seen the movie Angus.
It's on this is on the deluxe edition of Pinkerton.

(01:02:41):
So like. The.
Version of Pinkerton that I own has this on the on the set on
like the last disc or whatever but it doesn't sound like a
Pinkerton song. They must have recorded this in
between, I don't know this, but my guess is they recorded this
in between Blue Album and Pinkerton for that soundtrack
because it sounds much more BlueAlbum, just a little heavier,
which I love. Like, I'm, I'm into this like

(01:03:02):
heavier Weezer sound, like the fuzzier.
Yeah. The talking about Weezer's like,
popularity gets weird, though, because like, there's so much
like, Monday morning quarterbacking happening because
they like, took a nosedive at Pinkerton and now people love
Pinkerton. Justifiably so.
I like Pinkerton, Cuomo. Had like a mental breakdown
because of how hated that album was when it came out by the

(01:03:25):
public. I feel like if you're.
But every. If you're if you're gonna have a
breakdown, I might have it at the Red album like I might be
like maybe pork and beans wasn'twasn't the right move, but it
doesn't mean it's not catchy. Maybe when I?
Think that the Green album was the beginning of the end.
Like the Green album is where they started to get too big.

(01:03:46):
Island in the Sun was too big. Like the Blue Album was massive.
You know that. Maybe Blue?
Album is a it's a it's a cover. It's cover to cover.
It's it's. Maybe not too big but like too
commercial maybe is a better wayto put it.
But the Green Album is the last good Weezer album in my mind.
That Nothing Feels Good Feels Good book has a chapter on

(01:04:07):
Weezer and it talks about how like that green album was a
reaction to he was he was tryingto make more commercial music
'cause he was tired of being criticized for how personal
Pinkerton was. So he's like I.
Mean fuck Pinkerton was all going to write be personal.
It, well, highly personal. Yeah, well, but it's rivers.
Like I don't think he's a nuanced guy.
He was like, oh, I can't do personal.

(01:04:27):
Then I'm going to give you hash pipe and fucking island, island
in the sun. Like that's what you get now and
you're going to like it. And I think he's afraid to write
anything like even approaching personal now.
No, he's just like I'm going to.I don't know.
I I have not listened to anything post pretty much 2014.

(01:04:48):
Good. Good.
Did you know there's 12345677.17.2 albums since then?
I didn't. They keep putting out records,
increasingly bad album covers. Yeah, and they keep playing
bigger and bigger venues, like they're like the stadium tour

(01:05:10):
with Green Day and Fall Out Boy is just fucking.
Are they still doing that? I don't know is that was that a
thing? That was a huge thing for a
minute Weezer, Green Day and Fall Out Boy were on this
massive stadium tour for. A while, yeah, I think they'll
pick. It cause the Green Day just did
their own stadium tour with. Yeah, and I think Fall Out Boy
toured last year without them. So never caught that, never

(01:05:32):
caught that tour. Yeah, but yeah, 1-2 and three
Blue, Pinkerton, Green album. That's the end of Weezer.
That's where it starts not beinggood.
And then this song, like this song Suzanne, which is off the
Mallrat soundtrack. Suzanne.
Suzanne's SO. Good.
Well, I was just talking about this song.
Such a good song, and it's on like it's AB side for the Blue

(01:05:53):
album. Yeah, which is a bummer because
it's great. It became a soundtrack song in
midtown if you guys remember that pop punk band has a
fantastic cover of Suzanne. I don't there.
Is a there is a Weezer covers album that's really difficult to
find. There's a couple of them now,
but there's one where The Atariscover Butterfly.

(01:06:16):
That's the one I'm talking about.
Midtown was on it. It was a bunch of like good.
Luck finding that fucking album anywhere.
Oh, do you have to go to like the band?
I owned that CDI, owned that actual album and I, I mean, I
don't have any of those anymore,so those are gone.
It's crazy difficult to find now.
Like that album that you're talking about, Rod.
Like I've looked for it streaming 100 times and can't

(01:06:37):
really find it. What's the album called did you
say? I want to say it was called
like. Think it's just called a tribute
to Weezer. It's probably a name and then
it's like something a tribute toWeezer.
It probably does have a name. I want to hear this midtown
cover where you're hyping up. Maybe you 2.
Listen to it and since college so maybe.

(01:06:57):
You know what you should really think before you speak?
Maybe think about. Where you were at as a class
eater? Did Holiday Further Seems
Forever did say it ain't so Midtown.
Did Suzanne Piebald Did no one else?
There's more and more here yet. It's looks like you can see find
some of these on YouTube. OK, I I've got the Wikipedia for
it. I want to save it.

(01:07:18):
The Atari's did butterfly the Yeah, there's Yeah, this is,
we're thinking dashboard more confessional to Jamie.
Yeah, OK. It's called Rock Music Colon, a
tribute to Weezer rock. Music.
Was it on Spotify? It's on YouTube.
Got to go to the tube. All right, good pick, though.
I I had heard this song but forgot how much the song rocks.

(01:07:40):
So thank you, Donnie. Like, I like this heavy Weezer.
I'm going with a kind of obscureartist, but it's not an obscure
song because it's a cover. I'm not sure I've ever picked a
cover before. Never.
And not not knowingly, I don't think until now.
But the artist, I hope I say hername right.
The artist is Keena Grannis, butthe song is Can't Help Falling

(01:08:03):
in Love. I.

(01:08:24):
Stay. Oh, and for the Elvis cover.
Yeah, Elvis. Cover And I always loved that
Elvis song, but I always wish somebody else sang it.
And that's not at Elvis. No, because I like a lot of
other stuff Elvis sings. I just, I just don't think this
song is right for him. I mean, he'd sing it for a movie
like he sang it in in that Hawaii movie he was in.
Have you ever heard Bow Wow Wow cover?
It I have heard the Bow Wow Wow cover.

(01:08:46):
It yeah, that's my favorite cover of that song, but I agree
I'm with you. It's like.
One of my. One of my until this one.
I have not heard it, but I'm excited to listen to it.
It's just gorgeous. She just, she has an incredibly
beautiful voice and it's just, it's just her in a guitar and
it's slower and it makes the song feel very differently.

(01:09:07):
And I can't wait to listen to this.
Absolutely. Great.
I know I'm excited. I like, I tried to listen, I
tried to do the trick you guys said and my headphones will not
allow it. Does she?
I think she only. Does covers do covers?
She only does covers. Huh.
Maybe not only, but I think primarily yes.
So, OK, are you looking at her, her list right now?

(01:09:28):
Yeah, Yeah, it's, it's mostly, if not all covers, but she has 2
1/2 monthly listeners on Spotify.
She's not like. 2. And a half listeners 2 and a.
Half million, 2 million, sorry. About the first sight, but he's
got. Two, he said, 2 1/2.
He did say it's. Just it's just Rod and one of
the guys and a child and his child that's.

(01:09:51):
It 2 1/2. Shield a bump.
But Elvis singing it doesn't sound as romantic to me it.
Just doesn't do anything for you.
Speaking of which, though, this is A to our conversation
earlier, Elvis didn't write this.
It was written by the guys writing the music for that
movie. Like he's the first performer of
this, but it was written by likemusical guy, like guys who wrote

(01:10:14):
musicals. So I looked it up earlier.
I don't remember their names. I didn't recognize their names.
So but I I'm excited for you guys to hear this because and
you know what? The mixtape doesn't have
anything really slow on it yet. I don't think so.
This is this will be a nice change of pace for the mixtape.
Music Soulchild's a little slow.That's yeah, it's.
Smooth. It's not slow.

(01:10:35):
You saw me move into that, though.
It's very. Smooth into that.
I did see you moving to that Rod.
Thank you for calling that out that you were moving to that.
I can't help it sometimes, you know?
It's good, you're not wrong. This song was in.
Apparently this song was in on the soundtrack for Crazy Rich
Asians as well, which I did not see.
That's a it's a fun movie. I liked it.

(01:10:57):
The song was in that. Apparent.
Oh was it? I don't I only watched it once.
It was like a mindless movie. Watch ROM com.
It is over to Meg. Meg for your last pick.
This is my last pick it. Goes.
Fast, doesn't it? OK, I have to do this because it

(01:11:18):
was made popular by two separatepeople and it's I Will Always
Love You by Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton.
Oh, you have to pick one. Oh, you can't.
I'm going to go, Whitney. I was hoping this would make it.

(01:11:51):
I, you know, people, I ran my ran my stuff by all of my people
in my life. And this was not, they were
like, you can't put that on a plate.
I'm like, I'm gonna do it. I disagree with them.
I think it absolutely fits. It's just like, if you're
thinking of songs, it was between like Whitney Houston and

(01:12:12):
Céline Dion. I had like, I was like only
Whitney or Celine. You can't do both.
One or the other. I Will Always Love You by
Whitney Houston is I mean, it's powerful.
It's. A powerful song.
Her the documentary, I don't know if you have watched Whitney
Houston's documentary, but it's kind of heartbreaking because

(01:12:33):
she's like, because like her momwas a singer and she like
trained her and trained her and trained her and made her who she
was. And then she in the in the
documentary, it kind of alludes to the fact that she had a
relationship with a woman for a long time and she had to pick
between like this woman, her quote UN quote best friend or

(01:12:56):
Bobby Brown and cocaine. And she went with Bobby Brown.
And like after that, she just kind of, you know, started to
nosedive and she toured when shewas like running out of money
and stuff. She would tour over in Europe.
She wouldn't tour in America after she started losing her
voice, but she would tour in Europe.
And there's like footage of thembeing like, it was the worst

(01:13:16):
thing I've ever seen. It was so bad.
It's like kind of heartbreaking.It breaks my heart.
Yeah, it's really. Sad.
That breaks my heart. And you really just want
everyone to always love her. I know.
It's sad, but yeah, what a what a voice.
What a what a powerful song though.
What a goosebumps song, you know.
Goosebumps song was this. Did this have anything to do
with the bodyguard? Yeah.
Yes, that was where it was from.This could be on the soundtracks

(01:13:39):
one too. We've got 3 soundtrack songs now
on this mixtape. You're almost making your dreams
come true. Yeah, this is gonna, this is
about to be half, half soundtracks.
Is it me? It's you.
It is me I'm gonna do. Oh, it is.
Oh, it is. Love by.
Hello. Goodbye, I'll hold you tight so
you know. It is love from the 1st.

(01:14:17):
Oh wow, you know not what I expected to hear.
No deep cut, but like, just sucha adorable, beautiful song.
So cute. It's very good.
It's. So cute.
And then it just fucking, it really takes off like towards
the end. It's so damn cute.
This was like the lighter side, like towards the end of the emo
craze, right? Like hello goodbye was kind of

(01:14:39):
towards the end and always pretty happy.
It was like, it was like Electropop almost like it's I.
That was one of my favorite songs in high school.
I really liked that one. It was just like, this song
makes me feel good. That's what.
I'm saying. I would not.
Emo meets twee. It's like, which is the same.
It was like that twee indie thing meets emo a little.

(01:15:00):
Bit yeah, absolutely it was thatI feel like they did what Owl
City want. Like Owl City got bigger doing
it, but I feel like Hello Goodbye was better at it.
Yeah, that's a great way to. Put it, thought about it.
Yeah. I could never get over how much
Owl City sounded exactly like the Postal Service, like the way
he's he was. Just like I love Nuts The Postal

(01:15:21):
Service. Just the one album.
I just have to copy it. Yeah, they still put out songs
here and there. They do no new albums.
Yeah, they put out like it seemslike they've released like 2020.
They put out two songs and then they put out a song like four
times. Is it just the guy?
All here in your arms. I think it's just the one guy,

(01:15:42):
yeah. No, in your arms isn't from.
In your arms is from the same time as.
These are just remixes. Maybe, I don't know, but that
here in your arms was that like,oh, is it love?
Same album. Was on the same thing.
So these are just newer remixes then?
Yeah, maybe just like re returning it out because Here In
Your Arms was the song I heard first from that band actually,

(01:16:06):
and then I listened to the wholealbum and I like that one too.
Bullshit. Yeah, it looks like the last new
album might have been 2018. So.
They're on tour with Armor for Sleep right now, or they're
about to love. Armor that is the most It's like
a very 2006 statement. You're in luck.
You're in luck, Don, because they're playing the House of

(01:16:27):
Blues in Chicago on March 13th. You sell time, you can get
ticks. Get my get my handsome tickets.
Armor for sleep, boys. Night out.
Hello. Goodbye.
Whoa boys, night outs playing. Yeah, that was a big reaction.
I don't know them. That's what it says.
You don't know. Boys night out, boys out.
It's fucking fantastic. What's?
Your song. Rick So here's Boys Night out,

(01:16:48):
Boys night outs. First album, super big screamo
but pretty fun. All straight edge dudes.
Second album, they all kind of fell off the bandwagon and
recorded a concept album that I think is based on a true story
about a dude that was having night terrors and in his night
terrors kept having dreams that he killed his wife.
And then he actually killed his wife and couldn't deal with the

(01:17:11):
fact that he killed his wife, sohe cut his own hands off it.
Sounds like an episode. Maybe this sounds?
Like an. Episode for your.
I'm going into research. But I think it's based on our
true story, I think, don't quoteme on that.
I'm going to guess that that album is called Train Wreck.
That album is called Train Wreckand the album itself is so good,

(01:17:33):
like every song is a sequence ofthis whole thing.
But I I need you to find out if it's based on a true story.
I can do that no problem. I'm going to add it to my
library so I can go back and listen and also figure out if
that happened. Yeah, I hope it's real.
Cut his hands off is kind of extreme though.
How do you cut your hands off? I I I get cutting one off, but

(01:17:55):
how do you? Like I get the first one, the
second. One I'm going to.
Get a little nervous. I'm like, I know what I just
did. Also, you're going to bleed out.
Like did he do one and heal and then like time for the other
one? I don't understand.
There's a whole plot, but it doesn't say if it's based on a
true story. Speaking of the like Electro emo
thing, have you guys seen the all this stuff going around
social media of people just now discovering that the dude from

(01:18:20):
Metro station was Miley Cyrus's brother?
No, he listened to Metro station2 days ago.
It's everywhere. And I'm like, that was
everybody's shaking, like that was the whole thing.
It was. It was the whole.
Of course it was the. Whole thing.
Yeah. He, you know, I knew that it was
Miley Cyrus's brother, but I feel like the real, like, weird,
like, I don't know. I think her sister Noah is much

(01:18:43):
like, stranger than that guy. That guy seemed like he like
figured it out. I think The thing is people just
didn't know it. So like, I've seen it pop up on
my social media so much of like,like, how come nobody knew this?
I'm like, everybody knew this. I I don't know why I.
Felt like everybody knew it, yeah.
I don't know why you guys didn'tknow it, but everybody else did
so. We all did.

(01:19:03):
Maybe they were late. They were late to the scene and
you were you were in the scene when it was happening, so you
know. I mean, I was not into Metro
station at the time, but our good, our Moulton Mutual
acquaintance, Travis Williams was very into Metro station.
Oh man, Travis Williams wanted to be Trace Cyrus so bad.
So bad. He he wanted that swoopy hair.

(01:19:24):
He had that swoopy hair. He had the swoopy hair.
Isn't the other dude? Sorry not to go down that rabbit
hole, but it wasn't the other dude from metro station Somebody
too? Like somebody's relative.
I don't know, it's like a like anepo band.
I think so. I mean, I, I, I'm looking at him
right now and I. He's less popular.
I can't tell just really quicklyif he is or not.

(01:19:44):
Maybe he's not sorry. Sorry, Mason, you.
So if you're not a neppo baby, Iapologize.
Oh, he was on the Disney Channel.
That's right. He was he was on Hannah.
He was on Hannah Montana. He was an actor on that on that
show. That's how he met I.
Tell you what, this picture thatpops up for him like first thing
when you look him up, not a goodluck.

(01:20:05):
Like this guy? No, not a good look.
No, not a good look for him. Bomber Mason.
Sorry, Mason. Sorry your Amish beard isn't
working for me. Sorry, Mason.
No, he was a he was on Hannah Montana.
And so that's how that all started.
All right, back to the music, I guess.
Here last, last. Last one rounding it out.
This song, maybe I'm feeling a gap on this mixtape, but this

(01:20:27):
one too. So this is kind of a last minute
choice, but I'm going to go withI Love It by Icona Pop featuring
Charli Xex, I got this. Feeling on the summer day when
you were gone. I crashed my car into the
bridge. I watch.
I let it back. I threw your shit into a bag and
pushed it down the stairs. I crashed my car into the

(01:20:49):
bridge. I don't care.
I love it. I go, Oh yeah, there is a there
was a severe lack of a pop on it.
You're right. Like new newer pop.
Yeah, and this is an example of a song with love in the title.
That's not a love song. This is I guess I love having

(01:21:09):
fun. I love myself.
Maybe I love the feeling of crashing a car.
Is it Brad? It's Brat.
This song is Brat before Brat was a thing.
This song, it's Brat. Well done make.
Absolutely. I It's just what I was afraid
of. No, I.
Think it. Is a very, this is a very

(01:21:29):
eclectic playlist, which I appreciate.
I feel like I didn't use some ofthe ones.
I was like, Yep, I'm definitely putting that in there and you
just threw me for a loop. Especially with this last one
I'm like I don't know where I would fit anything else.
It's pretty. Typical this one.
Why not? This song is fucking fantastic.
What's wrong with this song? I.
I mean, does it resonate with you somewhere?
Is it? Is it a deep cut that cuts deep

(01:21:52):
or where I think? It does resonate with me.
I think it's a fantastic dance pop song, Like God tier dance
pop. Okay tell me the name of it
again cuz I. Love it, I love it.
I love it. Yeah, I probably do.
Yeah, I mean. I can't listen to it.
I had this feeling on a summer day when you were gone.
OK. Yeah, yeah.

(01:22:12):
Yep, you got it. You got it.
I don't know why. I don't know why I have to
defend myself. Sorry guys had to hear me sing
it, but yeah, yeah, that's that's a very, it's a summer
song for sure. Here's the thing, the rest of my
the rest of my stuff was either going to be more more indie rock
stuff, which I already kind of picked one with that cover, or
classic rock. And I'm like, let me pick the
thing that's different musically.

(01:22:32):
So that's why. You want it.
You want it to be the opposite. I just, I like a diverse
mixtape, you know, I I was goingfor diversity, I think, and it
did make my final nine out of like my initial like 25 too.
So it's not like it's just out of nowhere like it's here.
So many. Options.
I'll have you know that I was driving home on the phone with

(01:22:54):
my mom and I'm like, I got to record a pod when I get home.
She goes, oh, what's the theme for this one?
Joni's an avid listener and I said it's songs with love in the
title. What'd she pick?
And just like, oh, that's a goodone.
Well, like in the middle of us recording right now, she said.
Love potion #9 better make the list.
That's on my list. It was definitely on my list.

(01:23:15):
Yeah, for sure. Bonus track for for for Joni.
Yeah, Joni. Absolutely I agree Joni love
potion #9 and every version is always a banger.
So good I. Didn't even think of.
That you want to give us the Youwant to give us two of your 22
honorable mentions that you haveleft.
Just two. Yeah, I will.

(01:23:36):
How about four? I can have 4.
Yeah, let's say 4 honorable mentions.
I'm going to go modern. Love David Bowie?
OK. Baby love The Supremes.
Love it, great job. Feel Your Love tonight by Van
Halen and And I gotta pick between these two.
I'm gonna go. Throw them both out, you're

(01:23:57):
fine. OK, I don't know if you guys
ever heard Bitch I Love You by Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears.
Sure have, but. It's.
Classic song. It's so good.
And that's the chorus, by the way, That's he screams that.
Bitch. Yeah.
So such a great song. And then I also had Love Stinks
on there just because I felt, oh.

(01:24:17):
That's a good one. Good.
I was like I'm doing too much cutesy.
I wanted I'm I've only got 2 because Meg sold one of mine.
One of mine was Somebody to Loveby Queen, Yeah.
And then I wanted to put I just Called to say I Love You by
Stevie Wonder on it because of its association with High
Fidelity. But that's a soundtrack song.
That's another soundtrack song. But there's the whole point

(01:24:38):
where he walks in and it like, it's not on the soundtrack for
High Fidelity, but there's the scene where the guy walks into
the record store and says, do you have?
I just called to say I love you.And Jack Black says yeah.
And he goes, OK, can I have it? And Jack Black says no.
And like, he tells him he can't have the album.
He's like, does your daughter even like that song?
Oh, wait, is she in a coma? And like there's this whole

(01:24:59):
scene. It's a fantastic scene from the
movie. So I wanted to do that one.
It didn't make the cut. The other one was The Power of
Love by Huey Lewis in the news, another soundtrack song.
It's. A great one, yes, yes, that was
on my like my, that was actuallyon my top four and I booted it
out when you guys start like I was like, Oh no, I feel like
this one doesn't fit yet. I absolutely agree with Huey

(01:25:20):
Lewis. So those are my those are my
honorable mentions. Roderick What?
He got I had for the second timemaking my honourable mentions.
I had come and get your love by Redbone.
That's. A good one you've had that on.
2. I have.
I had. Next time you got to just put it
on. I had it on the bass part
episode. It's got a great bass line.
I had first first to love by Maya Friedman, which is like a

(01:25:44):
just the total indie rock right up my alley.
Don you'll if you listen to thatyou'll know why.
But gorgeous song. I had electric love by borns.
Do you guys remember that song? Remember when Borns was huge?
I feel like I vaguely remember it but I will have to listen to
it or at least read the lyrics. And then I did have another
dance song on here by this groupcalled Poolside that's called

(01:26:05):
Can't Stop Your Loving. But as you'll as you will hear
from my honorable mentions, all my other stuff was kind of
obscure except for Redbone, so. But I love that none of us could
remember electric love by born borns billion streams.
Yeah, it's a massive, you guys do know billion.
Streams. Are you listening to it right
now? Don Could.
You. My headphones won't let me but I

(01:26:27):
am reading the lyrics and I still can't.
But I'm sure if when I listen toit after this, I'll be like, Oh
yeah. It's the Lightning of the Bottle
song. It's.
Yeah, baby, you're like. There you go, Rod's got it.
Thank you, that is exactly what I needed.
Yes, Why do you know that song? 1.2 billion plays are just on

(01:26:47):
Spotify. Billion plays with AB Remember B
32 years. 32 years worth of 30. Two years.
Born came out in, I mean, 15. That song, it's 10 years old.
Oh my God, I don't like that that is 10.
Years ago. Bums me out.
Yeah. All right, Don, you want to read
the mix tape? So Queen, somebody to love

(01:27:09):
music. Soulchild Love The Four Tops.
Baby, I need your loving the cure Friday.
I'm in love Bob Marley. Is this love The Beatles.
All you need is love the Ramones.
Oh, oh, I love her So, Weezer, you gave your love to me.
Softly. Kina Granis can't help falling
in love. Whitney Houston, I will always
love you. Hello, goodbye.
Oh, it is love and Charlie XCX icon and pop.

(01:27:36):
I love. It nailed it.
Yeah. Nailed it.
Stuck on my choice. I'm stuck on my choice.
That might be the closer Meg yougot to You got to bury that one.
Somewhere. No, that's like #2.
I feel like I would be more inclined to get it out of the
way. You're just like this is acting.
Like, that song's not great. That's going to have people
dancing in their cars. People are going to put this on

(01:27:57):
and they're going to be like, Ohyeah, this song and they're
going to be bump into it. I respect your choice.
I wouldn't. I would.
I personally probably wouldn't have been on my playlist.
Sorry, just trying to keep. Things it would have been trying
to keep. Things diverse over here.
It would have been on my like summer songs to dance to
playlist. Maybe it'll be on that 10.

(01:28:18):
By the way, it has over a billion streams too, just before
you guys. Start it was.
Huge. It was yeah, that song was huge.
So you know the numbers. The numbers win over your guys
opinion. That's why I got.
I feel like I could we could argue that point with like the
most listened to songs are not always necessarily the.

(01:28:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'd be on that side of the
argument too. Normally.
All right, but look. But in this case it's me.
I picked it, deal with it. Deal with it.
It's all you. It's all you, boss.
How to make? All.
Right. Well.

(01:28:59):
I had a good night it. Was awesome.
Ave. here. Yeah, you're a great guest, Meg.
Great theme. Hey.
Hey, thank you. I appreciate.
I appreciate the chance. This was fun.
When when Rod told me the the the spiel, I was very excited.
I I love playlists. I'm thankful you guys had me on
here. It's awesome.
Yeah. And I, I hope if we find out
that that story was true, that maybe you have a future episode,

(01:29:22):
that you. I love if I do, I'll be.
Like his hands? What the hell?
If I do, I'll come back and I'llbe like all right guys, I got to
fill you in. You guys can do a mini episode
for the Patreon. You probably need to start.
There we go. We're on it.
Get some it's like we our Spotify system takes donations.

(01:29:42):
I guess I'll plug that now. Hey, you can donate to the pod
through Spotify everybody. We have a couple without even
advertising it, but. You guys have spent $10 on
Dumber things. Give them some money.
You guys I'm. Sure.
You have spent $10 on that? Did we talk about this pen at
the beginning of the episode? How much was it?
How much was that pen 1299? Exactly like your listeners have

(01:30:06):
spent $10 on Dumber things, you entertained them for like a full
hour. It's a great thing, though.
It's worth. It listeners, you probably spent
$10 on something Dumber. Like today.
Like the day you're. Absolutely.
That's how I like let myself buydumb things.
I've been like I've spent 499 onsomething stupider than this
app. Buy it and.

(01:30:27):
Then it becomes the stupid thingI bought.
Well make gruesome's on everything, right?
Gruesome streaming everywhere like.
Any, anywhere you can possibly listen to it.
Gruesome, horrific, true crime. If it pops up when you type in
Gruesome, it's me and Connie. And so go listen to it if you're
into true crime or if you're just into Meg's fantastic

(01:30:47):
podcast skills. Yeah, you're, you're a good
guest. This is solid.
This is solid. I've been doing this for a
couple years. I know the.
You're pro, you're pro. You're now the third podcaster
we've had on the 2nd that I would consider like a
professional podcaster. All right, hey, we'll take it.
You guys call me professional, but I still.

(01:31:08):
Wondered who you were not calling?
Professional podcaster. She's the 4th, she's the 4th
podcaster, and I guess the thirdprofessional because Ron does
that podcast professionally too.OK, we've had a lot of
podcasters and my bad. It's good.
It's a, it's a good community tobe in and to grow.
It's like very like if you talk to someone else who has a
podcast, they're always like, yes, cool, what's yours about?

(01:31:30):
I'll listen to it. It's never negative.
It's never like, like competition.
It's very supportive, yeah. That's been our experience so
far as well, yeah. So it's like that across the
board, even with bigger podcasts.
And you meet them, they're like,oh wow, that's awesome, 100%.
Well, thanks a lot. I appreciate it and look forward
to getting this out and seeing your sequence so that we can
criticize it at the beginning ofthe next episode.

(01:31:52):
Excellent. That's what we do.
So. All right.
Thanks. Bye.

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